UK ex-editor fights for phone hacking legal fees

Two British judges ruled Tuesday that a former tabloid editor who was once Prime Minister David Cameron's media strategist can continue a court battle to force Rupert Murdoch's News International to pay his legal fees.

LONDON — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was convicted of phone hacking Tuesday, but fellow editor Rebekah Brooks was acquitted after a monthslong trial centring on illegal activity at the heart of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire.
A jury at London’s Old Bailey unanimously found Coulson, the former spin doctor of British Prime Minister David Cameron, guilty of conspiring to intercept communications. Brooks was acquitted of that charge and of counts of bribing officials and obstructing police.